Act of 2 March 1895

Date: 2 Mar 1895 [unknown]
Location: United States

[U.S. Congress, U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. 28 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895), 964-965, 'An Act To provide for the payment of accrued pensions in certain cases', chap. 193; image copy, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsalvol.llsal_028/?sp=993&st=image : accessed 15 November 2023).]

[See Laws relating to the U.S. Civil War]

'CHAP. 193.--An Act To provide for the payment of accrued pensions in certain cases.

'Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the accrued pension to the date of the death of any pensioner, or of any person entitled to a pension having an application therefor pending, and whether a certificate therefor shall issue prior or subsequent to the death of such person, shall, in the case of a person pensioned, or applying for pension, on account of his disabilities, or service, be paid, first, to his widow; second, if there is no widow, to his child or children under the age of sixteen years at his death; third, in case of a widow, to her minor children under the age of sixteen years at her death. Such accrued [page 965] pension shall not be considered a part of the assets of the estate of such deceased person, nor be liable for the payment of the debts of said estate in any case whatsoever, but shall inure to the sole and exclusive benefit of the widow or children. And if no widow or child survive such pensioner, and in the case of a dependent mother, father, sister, or brother, no payment whatsoever of their accrued pension shall be made or allowed except so much as may be necessary to reimburse the person who bore the expense of their last sickness and burial, if they did not leave sufficient assets to meet such expense. And the mailing of a pension check, drawn by a pension agent in payment of a pension due, to the address of a pensioner, shall constitute payment in the event of the death of a pensioner subsequent to the execution of the voucher therefor. And all prior laws relating to the payment of accrued pension are hereby repealed.

'Approved, March 2, 1895.'